There’s nothing ‘Insecure’ about comedian Amanda...

Amanda Seales may be a stand-up comic by trade, but when it comes to her time — for the love of God — try not to waste it.

That’s what you find out when you get her on the phone for an interview, to promote her upcoming three-night stint at the Improv this weekend. Much like her, she expects you to come with the straight talk. And if it seems like you’re asking her a question she doesn’t need to answer because she’s already talked about it to death (like her brief time performing in neo-soul group Floetry), she’ll let you know it.

She will also let you know how she feels about all the drama and nonsense — especially when it comes to racism — that’s out there in the news and on social media. Seales, whose previous gigs include musician, MTV VJ and Sirius Satellite Radio DJ (this was all back when she known as Amanda Diva), can usually be found making topical rants on her Instagram page, rants that have made her a major topic of discussion on social-media platforms.

Just last week, she was a trending topic on Twitter for a post where she said African-American men were responsible for Trump’s presidency because she claims most of them didn’t vote. (After all the backlash she received, she tweeted a couple days later that she was done with Twitter.)

Amanda Seales

“I mean, I think I was uniquely built to withstand a high level of ignorance,” says the Inglewood-born, LA-based Seales, 37. “It doesn’t really wear me down as much as people think it does. I have a lot of balance in my life. So, I think it more so is the fact I have a platform where I can speak about it and I don’t have to internalize it that keeps me sane.”

In January, her first comedy special, “I Be Knowin’,” premiered on HBO, the same cable channel where you can also see her playing Issa Rae’s bougie gal pal on the hit show “Insecure.” And if that show’s opening, where she walks down the hall addressing her 820,000 Instagram followers on her Insta-Story before hitting the stage, is any indication, Seales enjoys having another platform to address her fans.

“I think, for me, it’s been helpful simply because I was on a TV show where I was playing a specific character and my social media allowed people to be invited into my point of view outside of that, which then invited them to, you know, my comedy,” she says. “So, I think that was more so what the media did for me. Also, it just created a better platform for me to be able to take my comedy outside of the stage and continue to be able to perform it in different spaces.”

Seales is returning to Houston after making her first appearance here last year, when she did two sold-out shows at Warehouse Live. Even though she had a good time performing for Houstonians (she called her Houston shows “the best shows on the entire tour”), there was a backstage issue that put her in no-nonsense mode.

“There was an issue at the venue where they decided to call over the police officers on duty because someone did not have a wristband who was waiting to get a wristband,” says Seales, who of course addressed the matter on social media. “And that was very disheartening because it’s that type of racist behavior we are always looking to avoid and it was unfortunate that, on our first trip in Houston, we ran straight up into it.”

(We reached out to Warehouse Live for comment but haven’t heard back.)

“But our audience, when I told them about it onstage, let it be known that they were in support of us,” she continues, “and that they were there to make sure that, even though the venue seemed to not want us there, they wanted us there.”